It's been a while since I have put in an entry. And with friends asking and reminding me that it's been awhile since I've updated my blog, I've decided to now update it. God has really been good and gracious to me. There are so many things to thank and praise God for that I don't really know how and where to start. That's one of the reason beside my laziness that explains why my blog has not been updated =þ.
Many of you who are not my airforce friends probably wonder what I've been up to in the past few months since I completed the OCS training phase. In brief, I've been through a course that contains modules that are essential to flying, medical tests, G-profiles, etc.
COURSE
I've never experienced such intensity of presentations and exams in my whole life of education up till this course. It was really a great and unforgettable experience! I really thank God for seeing me through this course, which lasted 2 months. God provided course mates who were really great company. And nights with them were never without boistrous laughter. So boistrous that it got us into some trouble =þ. Anyway, I really thank God for them and God willing, most of them would be going over to Australia with me. Thank God for the good memory, wisdom and composure throughout the presentations and exams. God has even graciously blessed me with highest scores for two of the exams. All glory to GOD!
MEDICAL TESTS/G-PROFILES
During the first medical test that I went through before I entered the airforce, I found out through the doctors that the polyps in my nose were larger than normal and it was restricting the airflow through my left nostril. And duing that first medical test, I was sent to get a heart scan because my ECG showed a suspected heart murmur. Through it all, I thank God that He heard my prayer and at the end of that first medical test, I was certified fit to fly. And here it was again that same thorough medical test that I was to go through before I fly off to Australia. I was afraid and fearful of whether there would be any problems that I might have, which would delay me from going for training. But God is good and almighty for He has graciously given me a body that is fit and healthy enough to leave to train in Australia! Praise God from Whom all Blessings flow!
G-profiles are basically sessions of subjecting the body to higher gravitational(G) forces with the aim that the human body will get used to it. ECG leads were placed on our bodies on some of the sessions to see if our heart was ok when subjected to higher G-forces. And I want to thank God that all is fine with me, considering that my first medical test showed suspected heart murmur on my ECG!! God is indeed gracious and Sovereign! I want to thank God too for seeing and strenghtening me through the various G-profiles which included 8Gs! Thank God that I did not G-LOC (G-induced Loss Of Conciousness). It was really by His strength and grace that I've gone through the G-training sessions without G-LOC.
NOW...
God-willing, I'll be departing for Australia at the end of September. So as of now, I have administrative stuff to settle, lessons to revise and review and and am just eagerly waiting to go over to Australia. This phase of training would decide whether I go to fighters, Helicopters, Transport or I get chop. If you haven't already known, my dream and desire is to go to the fighters, even for NFTC (http://www.nftc.net/nftc/en/flash/nftc.jsp), a fighter course conducted in Canada, which is even harder to get in. Only the true and living God, my God can bring it to pass for He alone is Sovereign!
MY DAILY PRAYER...
"O Lord my God, the God Whom the Highest Heavens and the earth cannot contain, Creator and God of the universe. Who am I to come before You, the Creator of the Universe? But I thank You O Lord that through Your Son Jesus Christ, I'm able to come boldly yet humbly before Your throne.
I commit to you my dream and desire of being a fighter pilot, the dream of even going for NFTC, into Your mighty Hands. O Lord, there are many uncertainties and odds against me, but I know that You are a great God and You alone are in absolute control for you are Sovereign! O God, I will not trust in my strength, nor will I trust in my ability, or anything else. But my trust, my faith, my hope will solely and entirely be in You O God, for You O God giveth grace to fly well, for you O Lord giveth strength and the ability! And it is You O God who grants the fighter slot. So God, I pray and plead with You to bring it to pass for Your Glory O Lord, yet not my will but Yours be done.
In Jesus' Name I pray, A-men."
"When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? -Psa 8:3-4
"... God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom..." -Dan 1:17
"And I[God] have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship" -Exo 31:3
